Why is my life so complicated hahahaI have only 3 exams left in 4.0 - Structural Systems, Building Systems and Site Planning. I have been having some health issues since 2014 and also started my family so have not been able to be as focused on getting these exams out of the way. My rolling clock takes effect June 3, 2018 and I will lose CPD and PPP and then schematic design in December 2018.Why not just take the 5.0 Project planning and design exam and be done? It seems that exam gives credits in all the remaining 4.0 exams for me. So complicated. Should I just call NCARB? Anyone know if the transition works that way?

melliemoe wrote:Why is my life so complicated hahahaI have only 3 exams left in 4.0 - Structural Systems, Building Systems and Site Planning. I have been having some health issues since 2014 and also started my family so have not been able to be as focused on getting these exams out of the way. My rolling clock takes effect June 3, 2018 and I will lose CPD and PPP and then schematic design in December 2018.Why not just take the 5.0 Project planning and design exam and be done? It seems that exam gives credits in all the remaining 4.0 exams for me. So complicated. Should I just call NCARB? Anyone know if the transition works that way?

CPD? I'll assume you must mean CDS.

I don't know what you're looking at but you're way off base.

As it stands, if you transition now you would have to pass PA, PPD, and PDD before 6/3/18.If you don't transition, you'll have to pass SS, BS, and SPD before 6/3/18.

I have only taken CDS and failed. I'd love to take the CDS, PPP, and SPD version 4.0 before June 3rd and then the PPD and PDD version 5.0. Is this unrealistic? If so, I'll start with version 5.0. Any thoughts? I have my own business and have 2 mid-sized residential projects to work on at the same time. Thanks!

cbdesign wrote:I have only taken CDS and failed. I'd love to take the CDS, PPP, and SPD version 4.0 before June 3rd and then the PPD and PDD version 5.0. Is this unrealistic? If so, I'll start with version 5.0. Any thoughts?

If you want to stay in 4.0 I would forget about SPD for now. Take CDS first, then PPP.

I have passed CDS, PPP, and SPD's and I want to transition to 5.0 but form what I am reading about 5.0 it seems very difficult and it almost makes me want to attempt to try and finish the last 4 exams in 4.0 before the June deadline ( I probably cant finish it before the deadline so it is probably a mute point). Anyone have any insight on this ?

Hello All - I've only passed 4.0 CDS, but sadly failed PPP and SPD before the transition occurred. So now I'm stuck taking the remaining (5) 5.0 exams, in a rolling clock time of 1.6 years from today. I'm asking outloud of a consensus if it is even worth trying to pass all of these in this timeframe or just give up and let the clock run out and restart/reauthorize? i failed PPP and SPD multiple times (was extremely, frustratingly close) and feel like it's not enough time to now realistically finish in time, given the fact that it's all brand new and the pass rates are hovering around 50% nationwide. Any comments are welcome, and if anyone else is in the same boat happy to talk it out. Does anyone think NCARB would even offer advice on this, or just give blanket non-committal robot responses? Thanks!!

Yes I believe I misunderstood the rolling clock. So if I do not pass all 5.0 divisions in my remaining time, it only causes the expiration of CDS 4.0, (which then I would have to take Construction and Evaluation) 5.0, not the entire set of exams to "start over." Ok thank you for confirming.